Velling Quotes & Sayings

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good. — Karl Kraus

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes. — James Carlos Blake

I'm the type of person who always has to be making something. — Brian Hodge

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures. — Ernst Haas

I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it. — Andrew McCutchen

I like it when you're in control of me, Isa. Not all of the time, but sometimes. — Ella Dominguez

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. — Felix Adler

I was thinking about how free of mobs recent centuries had been: to create a mob there must be public meetings, and public meetings in our time consisted of individuals communing via the All Thing or other datasphere channels; it is hard to create mob passion when people are separated by kilometers and light-years, connected only by comm lines and fatline threads. — Dan Simmons

If you didn't make me your world, why should I make you mine? — Jenna Alatari

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? — Honore De Balzac

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away. — Geoffrey Zakarian

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. — George Santayana

In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain. — E. M. Forster

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man. — Narendra Modi